detective Hercule Poirot mention the motive behind the killing as "a puzzle" which "was clear as soon as I read about the case,” although Poirot does not express a definite opinion. Constance Kent is also mentioned directly in Christie’s novel Crooked House (1949). Non-fiction studies The Case of Constance Kent (1928) by John Rhode. Rhode later published a shorter piece on the case ("Constance Kent") in The Anatomy of Murder (1936) Kate Summerscale's book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008) about the case was read as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week from 7 to 11 April 2008. It won Britain's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008. F. Tennyson Jesse included a chapter on the Constance Kent case in her 1924 study, Murder and Its Motives. Television The eight-part BBC series about three female murderers, titled A Question of Guilt (1980), features Prue Clarke as Constance Kent and Joss Ackland as Samuel Kent. An episode of the Investigation Discovery channel series Deadly Women, "A Daughter's Revenge" (2010), features a segment on Constance Kent who is portrayed by Miranda Daisy Herman. The television film The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House (25 April 2011, ITV) is a dramatization of the case. The Swedish crime TV series Veckans Brott (2012) had six special episodes about English murders, one of which was about the murder at Road Hill House. References Bibliography [Anon.] (1984) Australian Gemmologist, 15(5): February, 155 [Anon.] (2002) Protist (Germany), 153(4): 413 Courtney, W. P. (2004) "Badeley, Edward Lowth (1803/4–1868)", rev. G. Martin Murphy, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 22 July 2007 (subscription required) Davenport-Hines, R. (2006) "Kent, Constance Emilie (1844–1944)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online edn, accessed 29 August 2007 — (2005) "Kent, Constance (1844–1944)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, Melbourne University Press, pp352–353 Nolan, R. S. (1913) "The Law of the Seal of Confession", Catholic Encyclopaedia ; originally in The Rebel Earl and Other Studies, (Edinburgh: W. Green & Son, Limited, 1926), as "Constance Kent's Conscience: A Mid-Victorian Mystery", p. 47–86 1844 births 1944 deaths English centenarians English nurses English people convicted of murder English emigrants to Australia People convicted of murder by England and Wales Prisoners sentenced to death by England and Wales English prisoners sentenced to death Fratricides Infanticide British female murderers English murderers of children Priest–penitent privilege in England People from